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Annual Report of the Monitoring/Surveillance Network for Resistance to Antibiotics, 2004 (Brasilia, Brazil, 27-29 July 2005)
The report of this annual meeting provides country data for 2004 on antimicrobials, bacterial and hospital (nosocomial) infections, and enteric and non-enteric pathogens.
amr-2004.htm
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Nosocomial Infection Program Rapid Evaluation Guide (Washington, DC, July 2005)
The purpose of this guide is to (a) provide orientation for hospital directors on review and improvement of the nosocomial infection programs that all such facilities should have, and (b) provide a general overview rather than specifics on the status of hospital nosocomial infection prevention and control activities. This page provides a description and access to the full text.
amr-guiaInfecIH.htm
amr-guiaInfecIH.pdf
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Recommendations of a Group of Experts: Standards for the Use of Automated Identification Systems for Bacteria and Susceptibility to Antimicrobials (Brasilia, Brazil, 26–28 October 2004)
The general objective of the Expert Committee was to define the processes that guarantee the quality of the information generated by automated systems for identifying bacteria and testing susceptibility to antimicrobial drugs.
Specifically, they wanted to identify critical points and criteria for internal quality control, define a program for external performance evaluation, and prepare a short guide for technical evaluation visits. This page offers a summary in English and access to the full text in Spanish.
amr-GuiaAutoEvalDesemp.htm
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Recommendations of an Expert Committee: Performance Evaluation Standards for the Kirby-Bauer Antibiogram (Areas of Inhibition or Interpretation) (Santiago, Chile, 24–26 February 2003)
The objectives of this meeting were to define and document the standards that will be applied to the performance evaluation of laboratories participating in the Latin American Network for Monitoring Antimicrobial Resistance, document the basic quality control standards for the laboratories that participate in the national surveillance networks, and draft recommendations for maintaining performance quality in all participating countries. This page contains a summary and the full-text report.
amr-GuiaLabEvalDesemp.htm
amr-GuiaLabEvalDesemp.pdf
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Protocol for Calculating the Cost of Hospital Infections (Washington, DC, 2000)
The objectives of this protocol are to (1) determine the excess cost attributable to hospital infections in selected hospitals, (2)
train staff at the selected hospitals in methodologies for calculating the cost of hospital infections, and (3) determine the cumulative incidence of bacteremias associated with Staphylococcus aureus and the proportion of such infections with resistance to oxacillin. This page offers a summary and access to the full text.
amr-cost-ih-proto.htm
amr-cost-ih-proto.pdf
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